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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
19-09-2021
Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera
Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera
Brazilian observerJosé Luis Pereira captured a bright flash on the solar system's largest planet Monday night (Sept. 13), memorializing the fiery death of a space rock high in the Jovian atmosphere.
"I am an assiduous planetary observer," Pereira told Space.com in a written statement Tuesday (Sept. 14). "When the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are in opposition, I try to make images in every possible night of clear skies. Especially [of] the planet Jupiter, my favorite."
On Sunday (Sept. 12) and Monday, Pereira set up his equipment in São Caetano do Sul, in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo. As on many other nights, he aimed to photograph Jupiter and capture videos for the DeTeCt program, which seeks to spot and characterize impacts on the giant planet.
The weather didn't look like it would cooperate on Monday night, but Pereira persevered, collecting a series of 25 Jupiter videos, with no time gap between them.
"To my surprise, in the first video I noticed a different glow on the planet, but I didn't pay much attention to it as I thought it might be something related to the parameters adopted, and I continued watching normally," Pereira wrote. "So as not to stop the captures in progress for fear that weather conditions would worsen, I didn't check the first video."
He fed the videos into the DeTeCt program and then went to bed.
"I checked the result only on the morning of the 14th, when the program alerted me to the high probability of impact and verified that there was indeed a record in the first video of the night," Pereira wrote.
He then sent the information to Marc Delcroix of the French Astronomical Society, who confirmed that Pereira had indeed recorded footage of an impact that occurred Monday at 6:39 p.m. EDT (2239 GMT).
"For me it was a moment of great emotion, as I have been looking for a record of [such an] event for many years," Pereira wrote.
His observing setup consists of the following, he added: a Newtonian Telescope 275mm f/5,3 with a QHY5III462C camera, plus a Televue Powermate 5x (f/26,5) eyepiece and an IRUV cut filter. If you're looking to learn more about how to photograph planets, check out our astrophotography for beginners guide for the basics. You can also see how the Nikon Z6 camera stacks up for astrophotography here.
You can see more of Pereira's astronomical work on Flickr and YouTube.
A big, frequently battered planet
Because it orbits close to the main asteroid belt and features a powerful gravitational pull, Jupiter gets pummeled fairly often. In July 1994, for example, fragments of the broken-apart Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 famously slammed into Jupiter, creating big bruises in the planet's thick atmosphere that lasted for months.
Those scars opened a rare window into Jupiter below the cloud tops, and professional astronomers took advantage of the opportunity. They studied the impact sites with a variety of powerful telescopes, fleshing out our understanding of the gas giant's atmospheric composition.
Another high-profile smashup occurred 15 years later, when an impactor punched a scar the size of the Pacific Ocean into Jupiter's swirling air. Like the Shoemaker-Levy 9 lesions, that blemish lingered long enough for professional astronomers to mobilize.
But it doesn't look like they'll get that chance with the newly observed impact.
"The site is clearly resolved and no visible scar was left (just as with previous impact flash events.) The object was probably too small to reach the deeper atmosphere," astrophotographer Damian Peach wrote on Twitter Wednesday, where he posted a gorgeous photo of a healed-up Jupiter taken an hour after it was hit.
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Jose Luis Pereira was using his telescope and recording Jupiter when he caught something fantastic. A huge glow suddenly appears and then is gone on the surface of the planet. This could be a meteor, but I see no sign of a meteor incoming, no tail, no glowing from hitting Jupiters atmosphere. Thats really odd to me and tells me that this is not a meteor from space. However I do notice that the explosion seems to come from the planet itself. I believe that an alien bomb of some type has detonated, or some high tech energy buildings similar to our nuclear reactors, but far more advanced with an energy we cannot yet comprehend has exploded. This tells me that Jupiter is inhabited and the clouds around it could very well be from such detonations across its surface. Are they are war? Or are the detonations an accident? Only one way to find out...is to travel there.
UFO Fleet During Storm Over Montpellier, France Sept 16, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet During Storm Over Montpellier, France Sept 16, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 16, 2021 Location of sighting: Montpellier, France Source: Email report
This was sent to me this weekend. A lighting storm began over Montpellier, France on Sept 16th and someone went outside and noticed some glowing lights flying in the shape of a figure eight or...the infinity symbol. The lights are not made by spotlights, which would not be active during an electrical storm. Each light is different in shape and slightly different movement.
I have experienced a similar encounter once in Taiwan. These are energy entities...which can see people who are on the ground and they are highly intelligent. They are visible sometimes at night, especially on overcast nights. Here the entities are absorbing the lightning energy...almost feasting on it, as one would food. I think this helps them stay active. This video is 100% proof that energy entities do exist and they move above our cities freely.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This UFO was filmed yesterday above Montpellier in south of France during a violent storm. I would like to have your opinion and those of your subscribers of which I am part. This video was not filmed by me but another resident of Montpellier.
Strange UFO sighting over North Carolina 15-Sep-2021
Strange UFO sighting over North Carolina 15-Sep-2021
UFO footage filmed over North Carolina on 15th September 2021.
Witness report:
Not exactly sure what we saw it was 6 lights in a v shape some what it came down from the sky this happened 3 times in an hour I have never seen something like this before it appears to hover there was like a star lookin thing above it that whatver those lights are came from I think it’s just odd and I’d like an opinion on what it is as the map shows there is ocean and some land where I saw.
NASA has just revealed that there were once thousands of “super eruptions” from volcanoes on Mars. They were able to confirm this based on evidence found at a location called Arabia Terra in the northern part of the planet. These “super eruptions” occurred approximately 4 billion years ago and lasted for a period of about 500 million years.
These massive eruptions released a gigantic amount of molten rock and gas that ended up covering the surface of the planet for thousands of miles with a thick blanket of ash. To understand this better, the molten rock and gas that was spewed out of the volcano was equivalent to 400 million Olympic-size swimming pools. After the eruptions occurred, the volcanoes collapsed, creating a massive hole called a “caldera”.
Arabia Terra imaged by THEMIS.
(Via Wikipedia)
Patrick Whelley, who is a geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and who led the Arabia Terra analysis, went into further details, “Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the Sun and made the atmosphere colder.”
At first, scientists thought that the depressions were the cause of asteroids impacting the planet; however, they found that they were not roundly shaped, causing them to wonder whether they were in fact ancient calderas. At that point, Whelley and his colleagues, with help from Alexandra Matiella Novak, who is a volcanologist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, searched for evidence of volcanic ash from Arabia Terra by using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
They were able to find volcanic minerals that were turned into clay from water (these included montmorillonite, imogolite, and allophone) in canyon walls and craters located as far away as thousands of miles from the calderas. Furthermore, the layers of ash were exceptionally well preserved as if it had just happened.
An ice sheet in Oxus Patera which is a caldera in Arabia Terra.
(Via Wikipedia)
This new research, combined with a previous study conducted in 2013 that originally found the calderas, allowed the experts to confirm that there were thousands of powerful eruptions. But this is only the beginning as Jacob Richardson, who is a geologist at NASA Goddard and who worked with both Whelley and Novak, stated, “People are going to read our paper and go, ‘How? How could Mars do that? How can such a tiny planet melt enough rock to power thousands of super eruptions in one location?’” “I hope these questions bring about a lot of other research.” This latest research was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters where it can be read in full.
Another picture of several craters in Arabia Terra can be seen here.
NASA Goddard scientist, and Arabia Terra study lead author, Patrick Whelley, preparing for a 3D laser scan survey at the site of the 1875 explosive eruption of the Askja Volcano, Iceland, Aug. 2, 2019.
Credits: Jacob Richardson / NASA Goddard
This image shows several craters in Arabia Terra that are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The bright layers are roughly the same thickness, giving a stair-step appearance. The process that formed these sedimentary rocks is not yet well understood. They could have formed from sand or volcanic ash that was blown into the crater, or in water if the crater hosted a lake. The image was taken by a camera, the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Russisch team klaar voor productie van allereerste film in de ruimte
Een Russisch team van twee kosmonauten en twee professionele filmmakers reist begin volgende maand naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS, voor de productie van de eerste film die in de ruimte gemaakt wordt. Dat deelde de bemanning vandaag mee.
Het viertal vertrekt op 5 oktober met een Sojoez MS-19-ruimtecapsule. Die brengt hen dan naar het ISS, dat op 354 kilometer hoogte rondom de aarde cirkelt.
“Deze film vertelt het verhaal van een gewone mens. Een arts die niets te maken had met ruimteverkenning en er zelfs nooit aan dacht, krijgt het aanbod om naar het ISS te reizen en het leven van een kosmonaut te redden,” vertelde regisseur en acteur Klim Shipenko vandaag op een persconferentie, voor de bemanning richting de Baikonur-kosmodroom in Kazachstan vertrok.
Ook de professionele kosmonauten zullen in de film te zien zijn. “Ik zal niet de hoofdrol spelen, maar ik zal toch moeten uitzoeken hoe een film wordt gemaakt in zo’n ongewone plek als de ruimte,” reageerde commandant Anton Shkaplerov.
Hoofdrolspeelster Julia Peresild doet voor de gelegenheid haar eigen make-up en styling. “Het zal niet op hetzelfde niveau zijn als op aarde, maar we zullen ons best doen. We zijn er klaar voor,” zei ze. Bang is ze niet. “Het is een beetje te laat om bang te zijn, want we zijn zo ver gekomen. Er is nog veel te doen en om eerlijk te zijn, er is gewoon geen tijd meer voor angst.”
Regisseur Shipenko is 1m90 groot en zijn lengte maakt het trainen in het ruimtetuig - en de komende reis - niet erg comfortabel. Maar in de toekomst zullen er aanpassingen worden gedaan, zei hij. “Het is oké. Ik vlieg nu zoals het is, maar als we het vervolg doen over reizen naar Mars, dan beloven ze dat de zitplaats beter zal zijn.”
SpaceX: “Ruimtetoeristen Inspiration4 zijn gelukkig en in goede gezondheid”
De vier Amerikaanse ruimtetoeristen zijn "gezond, gelukkig en rusten comfortabel uit" in het ruimtetuig van SpaceX. Dat meldt het ruimtebedrijf vandaag. Het gaf daarmee een eerste update sinds de vier in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag Belgische tijd opstegen voor de historische ruimtereis.
De bemanning "cirkelde 5,5 keer rond de aarde, voerde de eerste reeks van wetenschappelijk onderzoeken uit en had een paar maaltijden" voordat ze naar bed gingen, meldt het bedrijf van Elon Musk op Twitter. De vier inzittenden zijn privépersonen waarbij voor het eerst geen enkele beroeps- of institutionele astronaut banen rondom onze planeet zal trekken.
De 38-jarige miljardair Jared Isaacman, een burgerpiloot die ook ervaring met performante gevechtsvlieguigen heeft, is gezagvoerder. Hij heeft ook de missie bekostigd. SpaceX zou een zitje voor ongeveer vijftig miljoen dollar verkopen. De 51-jarige Sian Proctor, eveneens een burgerpiloot, is professor en heeft een diploma biologie op zak. De 29-jarige Hayley Arceneaux is medisch assistente bij het St. Jude Kinderen Research Hospital waarvoor de missie geld moet opleveren. De 42-jarige Chris Sembroski is een data-ingenieur.
De missie die de naam Inspiration4 kreeg, is de eerste volledig commerciële bemande ruimtevlucht. Het vaartuig komt maximaal 540 kilometer van de aarde. De laatste keer dat mensen zo ver weg gingen, was in 2009. Na een verblijf van ongeveer drie dagen in de ruimte keren de bemanningsleden terug op aarde. Het vaartuig plonst dan, hangend aan een parachute, in de Atlantische Oceaan.
Strange lights in the sky have sparked many UFO reports
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A police helicopter was drafted in to help search for a mystery object spotted falling from the sky in North Staffordshire.
But the bright ellipse – seen by a member of the public - had vanished by the time they got there. All that remained were freshly damaged branches of trees.
The incident in woodland near Ipstones was reported to police back in July 1991.
Now we have delved into The Sentinel archives to find this and other UFO files.
Mark Lees, an engineer from Cheadle, had been visiting friends when the falling object appeared on the Churnet Valley skyline.
Mysterious Footage Shows UFOs Hovering In Skies...
“It came down into the woodlands on the opposite side of the valley, quite quickly and at a steep angle,” the 31-year-old told our reporter.
“It was not a light, but appeared metallic, possibly aluminium. It was broad daylight at the time.
“I clearly saw it go down in the trees, with the backdrop of the valley side behind me. It did not appear to be revolving in any way and followed a constant line.”
Mr Lees described it as around 10 feet long, elliptical and ‘very, very bright’. He returned to the scene in search of the object, but could find nothing.
He said: “There were places we could not reach because of the boggy ground and the thickness of the undergrowth.”
Police launched a major search and the helicopter crew uncovered the damaged branches.
PC Mick Powles, of Cheadle police, said: “From the evidence we have, we believe something did come down, but we do not know what it was.”
Reports of UFOs in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire had soared just a year or so before the Ipstones incident.
Back in summer 1990, we reported on figures from the Cheshire UFO Studies Centre in Earle Street, Crewe. Its team had received 120 calls via a 24-hour hotline in just 12 months – a rise of 20 per cent on the previous year.
Most of the sightings concerned mystery lights in the night sky over Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford and Crewe.
Investigations by the centre’s experts ruled out the vast majority of the lights as UFOs, with most traced to aircraft or satellites.
But in 1990, they were immersed in a six-month inquiry after two separate callers reported a close encounter with a 35ft ‘bright object with a glowing centre’. It was spotted in a field near the South Cheshire village of Audlem before vanishing.
Centre chairman Eric Morris said at the time: “Most of the people who call are genuine and many are worried or frightened by what they have seen.
“After inquiries with the RAF, the Ministry of Defence, airports, and interviewing witnesses, we can explain about 95 per cent of the strange things people see. But there are still the rest which remain a mystery.
One incident in South Cheshire in 1993 later turned out to be something less than sinister.
But it certainly spooked the public as hundreds of callers jammed the police switchboard. They reported white orbs appearing and then disappearing over a period of several hours.
One of the lay-bys along the A500 near Crewe(Image: Google Images)
Some roads were blocked, and lay-bys along the A500 were full of parked cars, as drivers went to watch the spectacle.
Police soon cracked the case. The orbs were laser lights being used for a 1940s-themed event at Rookery Hall Hotel at Worleston, near Nantwich.
Manager Philip Parker was amazed at the public response.
He said: “We had hundreds and hundreds of families following the lights. They travelled from as far as Hanley and Tarporley. It was absolutely incredible.”
In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9(SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became a media circus as it was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. The impact was so powerful that it left scars that endured for months and were more discernible than Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
Since then, astronomers have observed multiple objects impacting Jupiter, and it is expected that such impacts happen all the time (though unobserved). On September 13th, 2021, at 22:39:30 UTC (06:39:30 PM EDT; 03:39 PM:30 PDT), another impact was observed by multiple astronomers across the world. Images and a video of the impact (shown below) were captured by members of Société Lorraine d’Astronomie (SLA) in France.
The impact was reported by Brazilian amateur astronomer Jose Luis Pereira and confirmed a day later by Harald Paleske from Langendorf, Germany. At the time, Paleske had been taking a video of the transit of Io’s shadow when the event occurred, which appeared as a two-second flash. Upon reviewing the footage, he ruled out the possibility that the event happened closer to Earth (with Jupiter merely being the backdrop).
Still image of the impact. Credit: H. Paleske
After a thorough examination, Paleske determined that the impact happened at Jovian latitude 106.9° (CM1), longitude +3.8°, and timed it to 22:39:27 UTC on Sept. 13th. The impact was independently observed by two teams of French amateur astronomers with the SLA. According to a statement issued by the SLA, the two teams consisted of:
“Jean-Paul Arnould from his observatory in Villey-le-sec with the C11 telescope of the SLA [and] a team made up of Thibaut Humbert, Stéphane Barré, Alexis Desmougin, and Didier Walliang at the Astroqueyras observatory in Saint-Véran, with the 62 cm diameter telescope Other people around the world have observed the same phenomenon. This is the first time that so many people (currently 9) have captured this type of event.”
Thanks to the DeTeCt software/project, the amateur and professional astronomical community was issued a wide alert that allowed for rapid responses. All across the world, instruments that were aimed at Jupiter were consulted to see if they also recorded the light flash on the Jovian gas giant. The SLA also sent the data to Marc Delcroix, a Senior Research Scientist at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories‘ Media Information Laboratory in Kyoto, Japan.
Based on the images and video provided observers, the object’s diameter is estimated at 20 meters (ft). Similar to what happened with SL-9, this object is believed to be the remnant of a larger comet or asteroid that was captured by Jupiter’s gravity that broke up shortly before the impact took place. This information and any updates on the event can be found at Delcroix’s website, who indicated that this impact could be the brightest ever observed by amateur astronomers (save for the SL-9 impact).
Light on at Jupiter! Anyone home? This bright impact flash was spotted yesterday on the giant planet by astronomer José Luis Pereira.
Not a lot of info on the impacting object yet but its likely to be large and/or fast!
“Aside Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts in 1994, never an impact was so well covered!” he wrote. Over the coming days and weeks, Delcroix and the astronomical community will examine the amateur videos to learn more about the lightcurves the impact generated. From this, they hope to obtain information on the amount of energy released, the dynamics of the impact, the physical characteristics of the impactor itself.
“Many thanks to every amateur who was implied in this event, whether discovering it, observing it, looking for it in his capture without finding it, or spreading the alert (there were hundreds of shares). Special thanks to the amateurs of the French astrosurf forums who helped me a lot to find out information on discoveries or new observations. We amateurs demonstrated our force as a community, showed our motivation, dedication and experience through this great event!”
This event beautifully illustrates how far astronomy has come in recent years. Whereas impacts with Jupiter were once thought to be rare, they are now understood to be a regular occurrence. With modern opportunities for data-sharing, networking, and collaboration between amateurs and professionals, events that would have otherwise gone unnoticed are being detected with regular frequency. That’s how vital research and discoveries happen!
Aliens probably could just fly over the road here, but it never hurts to be courteous.
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SEATTLE — Big news for paranormal researchers, truth-seekers and fans of the strange and occult: Washington is one of the country's biggest hot spots for UFO sightings, according to a new report.
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For their study, GambleOnline says they searched through data from the National UFO Reporting Center and found that Washington had the third most UFO sightings of 2020, with 368 sightings logged. The only states with more unidentified flying objects were Florida (398 sightings) and California (619).
Washington state actually has a long history with UFO sightings. UFO hunting has been a popular pursuit in the United States since the mid-20th century, when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman piloting a small plane, filed the first well-known report in 1947 of a UFO over Mount Rainier in Washington. Arnold claimed he saw nine high-speed, crescent-shaped objects zooming along at several thousand miles per hour "like saucers skipping on water."
Although the objects Arnold claimed to see weren't saucer-shaped at all, his analogy led to the popularization of the term "flying saucers."
Other highlights from the study include:
1. Lights are the most common type of UFO reported
Mysterious lights made up 1,777 of last year's UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, making them far and away the most common type of UFO. The second most common were circles, with 886 sightings, and spheres, with 444 sightings. The least common sighting was the lowly cone-shaped UFO, only spotted 14 times.
2. Most sightings come between 8 p.m. and midnight
It may seem like common sense — it's much harder to see mysterious lights during the daytime, after all — but 40 percent of UFO sightings happen between 8 p.m. and midnight. If you'd rather not endure the hassle of experiencing a mysterious and world-shattering phenomenon, the best time to be out and about is from noon to 4 p.m., when UFO sightings are scarce.
3. Spring is UFO season
If you're an amateur alien hunter, spring is the best time to get out there. Researchers found that April and March had by far the most sightings, with 1,045 and 828 UFO reports respectively. December had the least sightings with 370.
Interestingly July is a relatively average month for UFO sightings, despite the fact that July 2 is UFO Awareness Day — you'd think people might step up their sky-gazing game.
4. The average UFO sighting lasts 19 minutes
UFO sightings in media tend to be blink-and-you-miss-it, but in real life, the UFOs hang around. Most UFOs (38 percent) stuck around for between one to five minutes, but 11 percent hang out for more than half an hour. Another 11 percent stuck around for 16 to 30 minutes, making the average sighting 19 minutes long.
There were 222 UFO sightings in Arizona in 2020, but this is not an image of any of those.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Big news for paranormal researchers, truth-seekers and fans of the strange and occult: Arizona is one of the country's hot spots for UFO sightings, according to a new report.
For its study, GambleOnline says it searched through data from the National UFO Reporting Center show that Arizona had the ninth most UFO sightings of 2020, with 222 sightings logged. California was No. 1 with 619 sightings, followed by Florida with 398, Washington with 368, Texas with 297, New York with 289, Ohio with 239 and Oregon with 236.
Other highlights from the study include:
1. Lights are the most common type of UFO reported
Mysterious lights made up 1,777 of last year's UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, making them far and away the most common type of UFO. The second most common were circles, with 886 sightings, and spheres, with 444 sightings. The least common sighting was the lowly cone-shaped UFO, only spotted 14 times.
2.Most sightings come between 8 p.m. and midnight
It may seem like common sense — it's much harder to see mysterious lights during the daytime, after all — but 40 percent of UFO sightings happen between 8 p.m. and midnight. If you'd rather not endure the hassle of experiencing a mysterious and world-shattering phenomenon, the best time to be out and about is from noon to 4 p.m., when UFO sightings are scarce.
3. Spring is UFO season
If you're an amateur alien hunter, spring is the best time to get out there. Researchers found that April and March had by far the most sightings, with 1,045 and 828 UFO reports respectively. December had the least sightings with 370.
Interestingly July is a relatively average month for UFO sightings, despite the fact that July 2 is UFO Awareness Day — you'd think people might step up their sky-gazing game.
4. The average UFO sighting lasts 19 minutes
UFO sightings in media tend to be blink-and-you-miss-it, but in real life, the UFOs hang around. Most UFOs (38 percent) stuck around for between one to five minutes, but 11 percent hang out for more than half an hour. Another 11 percent stuck around for 16 to 30 minutes, making the average sighting 19 minutes long.
On September 18, 1973, future President Jimmy Carter filed a report with the International UFO Bureau claiming that he had seen a UFO with his own two eyes in October of 1969.
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Carter’s insistence that he had seen a UFO persisted in his Presidential campaign. From the History Channel:
During the presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic challenger Carter was forthcoming about his belief that he had seen a UFO. He described waiting outside for a Lion’s Club Meeting in Leary, Georgia, to begin, at about 7:30 p.m., when he spotted what he called “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen” in the sky. Carter, as well as 10 to 12 other people who witnessed the same event, described the object as “very bright [with] changing colors and about the size of the moon.” Carter reported that “the object hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon and moved in toward the earth and away before disappearing into the distance.” He later told a reporter that, after the experience, he vowed never again to ridicule anyone who claimed to have seen a UFO.
During the presidential campaign of 1976, Carter promised that, if elected president, he would encourage the government to release “every piece of information” about UFOs available to the public and to scientists. After winning the presidency, though, Carter backed away from this pledge, saying that the release of some information might have “defense implications” and pose a threat to national security.
The report hasn’t exactly changed the transportation sector as we experience it on a day-to-day basis, but it certainly did play a role in the more widespread understanding of a UFO. There have been purported UFO sightings for centuries, but Carter really spurred on the government’s legitimate study of the crafts; in 1973, a Gallup poll found that 95 percent of people had heard of UFOs — a greater percentage of people than had heard of former President Gerald Ford.
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“Ancestral aliens are hibernating throughout the universe,” study states
“Ancestral aliens are hibernating throughout the universe,” study states
According to a study published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, there are “ancient alien civilizations” that traveled the cosmos.
Even and possibly our Milky Way, but now they would find themselves in a state of “self-imposed hibernation”, waiting for a moment when the universe in which we live changes physically.
According to these statements, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations would find themselves in a period of deep self-imposed hibernation.
They would be waiting for a future where the universe is much colder than it is today, in order to harness some type of energy that is currently not available to anyone.
According to the Fermi paradox , the universe is a supermassive place in which billions of stars and planets are home to countless developed and undeveloped extraterrestrial civilizations.
Where Earth is just one of many planets that can support life … But if there are so many alien civilizations, how come we haven’t officially found them?
The reality is that even if the universe is populated by alien civilizations, there is no way to get in touch with them.
Unless they live in the Milky Way, it would be difficult to find traces of aliens, due to the expansion of space.
“It would take billions of years to get to these civilizations, and obviously we don’t have that kind of technology yet.”
However, there may be an explanation for all the confusion about aliens and why we haven’t found them yet.
Two Oxford University neuroscientists named Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong, along with Milan Čirković of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in Serbia, have suggested that alien civilizations are in a self-imposed “hibernation” period.
That is, they are waiting for a future in which the Universe is colder than it is today in order to achieve a type of processing energy that cannot be achieved today.
Smart .. right?
The research was accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and establishes how conditions in our universe are simply too warm for a computer-based digital super civilization that has entered a state of hibernation of estivation, waiting for a time when the universe is much colder.
Scientists argue that more advanced civilizations may have already traveled the universe and are waiting for a better time to live and expand.
In the words of Sandberg and Kirikvić, “the cosmic background of our universe is three Kevin degrees above absolute 0, and as the universe expands, the average temperature will decrease exponentially.”
So “if you want to accumulate as much processing information with the energy you have, it makes sense to wait. It will be exponentially better ”.
The researchers explain that billions of years from now, when the cosmic background radiation of the universe is reduced to practically nothing.
Mainly due to the expansion rates of the universe and the extinction of stars, information processing will be achievable at a rate 1030 greater than what we can achieve today.
“An advanced ‘alien’ civilization may have explored a large part of the universe, done what is feasible with existing nature, and now mostly has internal ‘cultural’ things to do,” Sandberg explains on his blog.
“These things can be thought of as information processing.
If an alien civilization wants to maximize processing, they should not do it today, but wait until the cold future, when they will get so much more. Therefore, they should hibernate ”.
If this theory is true, it would mean that ancient alien civilizations are real and that they traveled through the universe and possibly even our galaxy, but are now extremely difficult to find.
Mysterious booms are back in the news in Clarksville, Tennessee, and in Helsinki, Sweden, and after many days with no explanations, residents are demanding answers while their imaginations and fears run wild. Secret weapons? Climate change? Aliens?
“The 911 Dispatch Center received numerous calls around 9:50 pm last night (9/4/21) about a “loud explosion” being heard and several individuals reported that they felt the “ground shake”. The sound was heard across many parts of Montgomery County but there have been no reports of any injuries or property damage. The Clarksville Police Department, Fire Department, Montgomery County Sheriffs Office and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) searched for a couple of hours but were unable to locate the source. Fort Campbell is on a Four Day weekend due to the Labor Day holiday, and does not appear to be conducting any type of training or exercise.”
If it’s not a sonic boom, what is it?
The Clarksville Police Department investigated the reports coming in from many parts of Montgomery County but uncovered nothing. Numerous surveillance cameras picked up the boom, some witnesses claimed to have seen a bright light like a meteor, and one reported an odd smell, possibly from fireworks set of to celebrate the Labor Day holiday – although most of the reports indicated the explosion was louder than fireworks. However, the U.S. Geological Survey didn’t register any earthquakes or seismic activity at the time. There was speculation it could have been trapped gas exploding (although no craters were found) or dried-up water pockets collapsing (although no sinkholes were found). Crossing those off of the list leaves … aliens? It’s been nearly two weeks with no updates or explanations.
Meanwhile, in Helsinki …
“The current opinion is that it was most likely not caused by a meteor, but of course that can’t be ruled out.”
“In all probability, it was not any type of earthquake. We still have a more detailed analysis of that day [to examine], but we looked at it quickly over the weekend and it doesn’t show any clear [seismic activity] at our stations in Helsinki.”
On September 13th, a loud explosion was reported in the Helsinki neighborhoods of Oulunkylä, Kumpula, Käpylä, Arabia, Kulosaari, Metsälä, Meilahti and Kulosaari at around 11:45pm. Initial speculation centered on earthquake, meteor or military-caused sonic boom, but all of those were quickly ruled out by local authorities, astronomers and military personnel. Seismometers picked up nothing, and investigations found no craters, debris or other evidence of conventional explosions. After four days, the Helsinki boom also has no updates or explanations.
If it’s not a meteor, what is it?
These mysterious booms continue to occur worldwide. In a sense, they have become audio UFOs – Unidentified Audio Occurrences. Like UFOs, many van be explained quickly. Like UFOs, some cannot. Like UFOs, they seem to be increasing. Unlike UFOs, governments and militaries don’t seem to be concerned. Perhaps THAT should be a cause of concern for the rest of us. The mysterious booms are probably not alien related. However, unlike UFOs, the sounds are witnessed by many, physically and psychologically disturbing, and dismissed too easily.
Is it time to move the needle on booms from mysterious to sinister? Is it time for a Department of UAOs?
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A new de-extinction company called Colossal that is being led by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist Dr. George Church say that they are hoping to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth within the next six years. While the last of the woolly mammoths went extinct about 4,000 years ago, the new plan is to change the genome of Asian elephants in order to create modern mammoths.
In a press release, Lamm discussed their intentions, “Never before has humanity been able to harness the power of this technology to rebuild ecosystems, heal our Earth and preserve its future through the repopulation of extinct animals,” adding, “In addition to bringing back ancient extinct species like the woolly mammoth, we will be able to leverage our technologies to help preserve critically endangered species that are on the verge of extinction and restore animals where humankind had a hand in their demise.”
So, how exactly do they plan on resurrecting the mammoth? They would have to add mammoth genes to DNA from Asian elephants in order to create curved tusks, tinier ears, subcutaneous fat stores, and a thick shaggy coat that would allow them to live in the Arctic Circle. This combination would create an Asian elephant/woolly mammoth hybrid.
Asian elephants
There are several issues regarding the resurrection of an already extinct animal as noted by Dr. Victoria Herridge who is a researcher at the National History Museum, “There are a lot of questions raised by this project. The key ethical points are the aspects of animal experimentation and husbandry – what is this creature? Is it a new species? How many do you need?” “Then if they succeed, what will the needs be of an intelligent social creature? And what are our obligations to it?”
There in fact two different ways animals could be resurrected. The first is cloning where the DNA in the cell of one animal is inserted into a fertilized egg and put into a surrogate mother – there hasn’t been a complete mammoth genome that has been found yet so that poses a problem. The second manner is finding individual genes of one animal and inserting them into the genome of another – this could possibly work for bringing the mammoth back as the modified genome would be put into a fertilized elephant egg and then put into a surrogate elephant. Artificial wombs have been suggested but there’s no proof that those would work either.
“At that point you have to start asking questions about the ethics of experimentation on elephants. You won’t know whether or not there is an issue with your chimeric creature until further down the line,” Dr. Herridge pointed out.
Mural by Charles R. Knight in 1916.
(Via Wikipedia)
As for whether or not resurrecting the woolly mammoth would actually reverse climate change, the company stated that they hope to “re-wild extinct species to their original habitats so they can revitalize lost ecosystems for a healthier planet.” There is a theory that mammoths aided in fighting climate change by bringing back and maintaining the plentiful grassland steppes in the Arctic but after they went extinct, the area turned to forests. Since forests absorb heat from the sun, the grassland would help to cool the planet.
While it would be interesting and a little eerie to see a woolly mammoth roaming around, this new company is focused on bringing even more extinct animals back from the dead – what could possibly go wrong?
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The ‘Futuro’ UFO buildings may not be genuine artifacts of an extraterrestrial civilization, but they are genuine architectural works of art. And only three remain in all of Russia.
One of the most interesting places in the Caucasus resort of Dombay has got to be the “flying saucer”, which stands on the plateau amid the snowy mountain peaks. And it’s not the only building of this type there.
The idea for constructing buildings in the shape of UFOs was conceived by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the mid-1960s - a time when humanity found great inspiration in space flight and discussions of our future among the stars. That is how the ‘Futuro’ series appeared. The building measures four meters (13 feet) high and 8 meters (26 feet) in diameter. It was constructed out of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane and poly(methyl methacrylate), had a chimney for heating, a kitchen and en-suite facilities. The result was a mobile construction that was easy to erect and fit for winter living (snow would just slide off the roof).
The “flying saucers” gained a fanbase across the world, from the U.S. to Taiwan. However, with the 1970s oil crisis in full swing, the price of plastic soared and the ‘Futuro’ project was shut down, in order to cut losses. Modern estimates suggest that some 60 units remain in the world (of the just under 100 that were built during the 1960s-1970s), most of which have turned into derelict monuments to avant-garde architecture.
And three of these “UFOs” can be found in Russia!
The Dombay hotel
The hotel in the Soviet times and nowadays.
Sozinov Vitaly/TASS; Getty Images
This highland hotel called 'Tarelka' is among the few cases where a weird building is used according to the architect’s original plans - in this case, accommodation for skiers and snowboarders. The hotel was the first of three buildings to appear - it was a present from Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, who was an avid skier.
Dombay used to be very popular among Soviet skiers. In the 1960s, a resort was built there, boasting great infrastructure. Kekkonen visited numerous times and decided to present the resort with his special creation.
The hotel functions to this day. The building was recently relocated 250 meters higher, closer to the ski lifts. It is only available to rent as a whole unit and can accommodate up to six guests. The cost is 15,000 rubles (approx. $200) per night, which includes breakfast and dinner.
That's how 'Tarelka' hotel looks inside.
dombai.online
Now, where the other two “flying saucers” came from remains a topic of debate. One version is that Kekkonen gifted not one, but three buildings to the resort. Another is that the USSR decided on purchasing several of them for the 1980 Olympics: They were to supposedly house souvenir kiosks and cafes, but the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan resulted in the kinds of sanctions that only three of the Futuro buildings managed to be purchased before the financial situation deteriorated.
The cafe, whose name literally translates as “saucer/plate”, is situated in the Crimean city of Gurzuf (Naberezhnaya Street, 7). Tarelka appeared there 30 years ago, in the late stages of the Soviet era. Around it is a wonderful park, right on the Black Sea coast. It used to be part of the ‘Sputnik’ All-Soviet Youth Center (today, it is the ‘Sputnik’ wing of the ‘Pushkino’ spa hotel).
In the 1990s, the building housed an elite restaurant that gradually lost its status and was eventually converted into a disco bar. The view that opened up from the veranda was truly marvelous! There were numerous private attempts at returning the building to its former glory, but the crowds never really took to it. Today, it tries to reel in customers with promises of BBQs with a view.
‘Chaynaya Tarelka’ cafe in Krasnodar
In the western district of Krasnodar, another Futuro “flying saucer” was built. Located at Atarbekova Street, 54/1, the building became a prominent spot in this residential area with its otherwise neverending apartment blocks. Similar to the building in Gurzuf, it stands on a tall base, which houses the main hall and the kitchen.
At first, the building belonged to ‘Sputnik’, a popular ice cream cafe. In the 1990s, it was turned into a squalid bar. It would change owners and names throughout the years, serving as bars, storage spaces and even a household chemicals store.
In later years, the building presented itself as a tea-drinking cafe, for which it is now known as ‘Chaynaya Tarelka’ (‘Tea Saucer’), boasting a wide variety of teas and absolutely stunning interior design: red and yellow walls and comfy couches with different-colored pillows around the perimeter. The reviews were also very positive, with people loving the atmosphere.
Cafe in 1987.
Peshtakovsky/Sputnik
Sadly, the cafe also closed down. Today, you’ll find fruit and vegetable sellers around the building.
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Annunaki – 450,000 years ago our ancestors descended from the heavens to engineer the first human beings. To us they were Giants that ruled as Gods over mankind. Now new evidence and scientific research acknowledges their existence on earth but reveals when they will return. The truth of their real origin and purpose is much more bizarre and amazing than anything previously believed. From the Garden of Eden to the Great Flood; from the God of the Bible to the secrets of Enoch all shall be revealed.
An “astonishing anomaly” discovered in Antarctica 3 miles under the ice
An “astonishing anomaly” discovered in Antarctica 3 miles under the ice
Researchers in Antarctica discovered an “astonishing magnetic anomaly” three miles under the ice during a flyby of the continent.
The find was made near Russia’s scientific research station in East Antarctica. In the 1990s, scientists drilled into this area to discover what is known as Lake Vostok .
But their work stopped just short of reaching the water, due to concerns about the deterioration of what could be a “pristine” ecosystem, leaving a number of questions unanswered.
Narrator David Taylor said: ‘In the 1970s, through aerial radar, Russia began to suspect that they had inadvertently built their base on the tip of a large subglacial lake.
“In the years since orbital radar mapping, combined with surface seismological measurements, has confirmed that Lake Vostok, under two miles of solid ice, is the largest lake discovered in the last 100 years.
“About the size of Lake Ontario, but much deeper in places, over 3,000 feet, and about four times the volume.
“The lake, which is still liquid and not frozen, has been isolated under the ice sheets for between 13,000 and 14 million years, depending on who you talk to.
“The water in the lake, determined by thermal scans of the surface, ranges from 10C to 18C, which clearly indicates an underground heat source.”
Mr. Taylor went on to detail exactly what they found in the drilled hole.
“In addition, the entire lake is covered by a sloping dome of air several thousand feet high that is formed by hot water melting the overlapping ice just above the lake’s surface.
‘Core samples taken by the Russians have revealed the presence of microbes, nutrients and various gases such as methane embedded in the clear frozen lake water just above the dome.
“Such elements are typical signatures of biological processes, the lake therefore has all the ingredients of an incredible scientific find – a completely isolated ecosystem, water, heat, breathed gases and current biological activity.
As the actual scope and composition of the lake became apparent, NASA began to see it as an ideal test bed for their plans to drill through the ice and search the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
The mission was canceled over environmental contamination concerns, but scans of the area since then have revealed something more puzzling.
Mr Taylor explained: “A team of scientists from Columbia University, working under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, began an unprecedented series of low-altitude aerial surveys over Lake Vostok , designed to map gravitational magnetic activity. and thermal under the ice.
As they did so, they made an amazing find.
‘A huge magnetic anomaly was discovered covering the entire southeastern portion of the lake shore. This remarkable anomaly could not have been caused by natural processes. “
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